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POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic relational reasoning for differential privacy
Differential privacy is a notion of confidentiality that protects the privacy of individuals while allowing useful computations on their private data. Deriving differential priva...
Gilles Barthe, Boris Köpf, Federico Olmedo, S...
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 6 months ago
Algebraic foundations for effect-dependent optimisations
We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...
Ohad Kammar, Gordon D. Plotkin
JUCS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Compositional Semantics of Dataflow Networks with Query-Driven Communication of Exact Values
: We develop and study the concept of dataflow process networks as used for example by Kahn to suit exact computation over data types related to real numbers, such as continuous fu...
Michal Konecný, Amin Farjudian
JUCS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Semantics of Query-Driven Communication of Exact Values
: We address the question of how to communicate among distributed processes values such as real numbers, continuous functions and geometrical solids with arbitrary precision, yet e...
Michal Konecný, Amin Farjudian
JELIA
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Similarity-Based Inconsistency-Tolerant Logics
Abstract. Many logics for AI applications that are defined by denotational semantics are trivialized in the presence of inconsistency. It is therefore often desirable, and practic...
Ofer Arieli, Anna Zamansky
ENTCS
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Amb Breaks Well-Pointedness, Ground Amb Doesn't
McCarthy’s amb operator has no known denotational semantics, and its basic operational properties - the context lemma, the compatibility of refinement similarity and convex bis...
Paul Blain Levy
ENTCS
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
An Algebra of Pure Quantum Programming
We develop a sound and complete equational theory for the functional quantum programming language QML. The soundness and completeness of the theory are with respect to the previou...
Thorsten Altenkirch, Jonathan Grattage, Juliana Ka...
JUCS
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Disentangling Denotational Semantics Definitions
Abstract: Denotational semantics is a powerful technique to formally define programming languages. However, language constructs are not always orthogonal, so many semantic equation...
Fabio Tirelo, Roberto da Silva Bigonha, Joã...
ENTCS
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
A "Hardware Compiler" Semantics for Handel-C
We present a denotational semantics for the hardware compilation language Handel-C that maps language constructs to a set of equations, which describe the structure of the resulti...
Andrew Butterfield, Jim Woodcock
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Elgot Algebras
Denotational semantics can be based on algebras with additional structure (order, metric, etc.) which makes it possible to interpret recursive specifications. It was the idea of El...
Jirí Adámek, Stefan Milius, Jiri Vel...